If a recent campaign flyer is any indication, a Republican state Senate candidate's selling point in 2010 is now seen as his political liability in 2012.

Fox31 in Denver pointed out on Wednesday that a campaign mailer for Lang Sias' failed bid for Colorado's 7th congressional district has been reused and edited for his state Senate run. There's one major alteration, however: A yellow placard on a supporter's poster that read "Tea Party Endorsed" in the initial mailer is now blank.

The original mailer was first circulated two years ago, when populist fervor fueled a Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives. Sias was then challenging Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier in a GOP primary to replace Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.).